Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass. Gundotra, ...

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Google has outdone itself for Mother's Day this year. The search giant released an interactive Google Doodle on Sunday that actually creates cards for mom, which are designed to look like the kind of arts and crafts projects she would want to pin up ...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. YouTube has announced a new pilot program for pa...

Google+ is catching up on a lot of fronts to Facebook, but it's still lagging in one key metric: Time spent. The average visitor to the social network spent 6 minutes 47 seconds on Google+'s site in March vs. 6 hours, 44 minutes on Facebook.com accor...

There’s a reason they call it cyberspace: Like space, the Internet has grown so expansive that we’ll likely never know all its secrets. Indeed, cyberspace is so deep and complex that even the National Security Agency’s top cyberspies are struggling t...

Google can now take you back in time. The search giant unveiled a new project Thursday called Timelapse that visualizes how different parts of the earth have changed during the past 28 years. You can watch the trends in deforestation in the Amazon fr...

Google has updated its Google Earth Android app to version 7.1, bringing several important improvements, most notably the support for Street View. If you want to explore the Earth from the street level, zoom into an area and the Pegman -- the little ...

Today's cars have advanced crash prevention breaking, intelligent heads-up displays and pre-crash alters, but customers still think the tech companies Apple and Google can do a better job, according to a survey by CarSafetyRules.com. The study asked ...

Wearing Google Glass is an experience that's hard to describe accurately. When you tell people that it creates a virtual screen that appears to float in front of you, they tend to get the idea that it's very distracting or obtrusive. That's not the c...

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